Do background checks a better valentine make?

While most dating sites now

While most dating sites now have some type of background check component for prospective mates included or at an up-charge, it is important to understand what the check is and more importantly, what it is not.

Nearly every background check offered by these sites is a multi-jurisdictional criminal database search.

Sounds comprehensive, right? Not so much.

Even the best databases include only 15-20% of all criminal records from across the country. So while the database will tell you if the subject of the background check has a record in that database, it cannot conclusively tell you that the person has never
committed a crime.

Further, because many records reported into these databases don't include extensive identifiers, it is not uncommon to
receive records that belong to another person with the same name.

Utilizing these background checks is not a bad idea, but the buyer needs to understand the limitations.

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I have to say emphatically

I have to say emphatically NO, though I am not surprised at those results. Face it, the woman can be more vulnerable, I guess, in terms of physicality. I say no just because it makes me like the world a bit less to even consider it! I hate the very idea that something like a background check is even part of a consideration, and could be normal instead of out of the ordinary. Color me romantic, but there should be some mystery, don't you think?

I'm a man and I think it's a good idea.

I've had one potential relationship destroyed because one woman said things that cast suspicion on me that was unwarranted. The woman I liked chose to believe her instead of evidence I presented to the contrary. As it turns out, If I had done a background check on her, I wouldn't have been interested in the first place. If in the future, before getting too serious with a woman I haven't known a long time, I'm likely to suggest a mutual background check. Some things I want to know are that
She doesn't have any undisclosed diseases
She doesn't have any undisclosed debts
She doesn't have a history of unfaithfulness
You can date for a long time and still not know these things.

I do understand some of the

I do understand some of the concerns about running background checks on potential daters, however I do think it is necessary to keep yourself safe from online predators and criminals. While chatting with someone online can be fun and non threatening, meeting someone in person is a totally different situation and as for me I absolutely run a background check on the person before we meet off line. Unfortunately, there are a lot of deceitful people on these dating sites and I am not going to put myself in a position to be hurt. Whether or not it becomes mandatory for these sites to implement background checks during sign up, anyone can go out on their own to run a background check.